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2025 Benefit & Online Auction

2025年04月12日

Celebrate our critical past, dynamic present, and ambitious future in the heart of downtown Los Angeles at Unlocking the Future, JANM’s 2025 Benefit and Online Auction. Embark on a major renovation with us to amplify our stories, inspire a more just future, and honor the legacy of the Japanese American community.Enjoy a special live performance by Judith Hill and celebrate the legacies of inspirational community lead...

JANM Book Club: “The Bridges Yuri Built” with Kai Naima Williams

2025年03月22日

Celebrate Women’s History Month and join author and great-granddaughter of Yuri Kochiyama, Kai Naima Williams for a reading of The Bridges Yuri Built: How Yuri Kochiyama Marched Across Movements followed by a conversation about Yuri Kochiyama’s life and legacy with Williams and journalist Lisa Ling.The Bridges Yuri Built introduces one of the twentieth century’s most notable freedom fighters to the next generation of...

Exhibition Tour of BeHere / 1942 with artist Masaki Fujihata

2022年05月26日

FREE Join Masaki Fujihata, the visionary Japanese media artist behind BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration, for a guided tour of JANM’s newest exhibition. Photo credit: Jim Conner

#LITinCOLOR: Celebrating Writers of Color

2016年03月29日

FREE #LITinCOLOR will celebrate the invention and imagination of writers of color who seek to represent realities that lie outside of the mainstream imagination, be it the lasting impact of American concentration camps or the navigation of racially profiled notions of sexuality. Poets and novelists from various communities and generations will come together to honor the ways in which writers of color have...

Community Day of Remembrance

2012年02月18日

Pay-What-You-Can! 2012 Day of Remembrance will mark the 70th Anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 which led to the unlawful forced removal of thousands of Americans of Japanese ancestry and the unconstitutional mass incarceration of 120,000 individuals in domestic concentration camps. The 2012 Day of Remembrance program will explore the theme, “70 Years After E.O. 9066: Defending Our Civil Liberti...

Bringing the Circle Together: Waterbuster

2010年06月19日

Free Screening of Waterbuster Waterbuster is a documentary chronicling the dislocation and relocation of the Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara Nation of North Dakota due to a dam that inundated their homeland along the banks of the Missouri River. It is also the personal story of the director’s family, whose life choices were influenced by this powerful reshaping of the landscape. The film examines the events that led up to ...

Screening of "The Killing of a Chinese Cookie"

2009年12月10日

Join us for a special one-night event! Come sample fortune cookie-inspired desserts from the best and brightest of LA-based culinary schools followed by a special free screening of the documentary"The Killing of a Chinese Cookie." 6:30 PM Doors open/tasting 7:30 PM Film begins There will be a Q&A after the screening with writer/director Derek Shimoda. Space is limited on a first-come, first-serve basi...

ID Film Festival

2009年10月02日 - 2009年10月03日

The second annual ID Film Festival showcases films that challenge and celebrate what it means to be Asian. Free for members; $5 non-members per program. Or you can buy a festival pass for $30. (Unless otherwise noted.) For more information about the festival, go to: www.idfilmfest.org. DAY 2 of ID Film Festival 6 PM - Three Narrow Gates (Directed by Vincent Chui): US Premier. This film is part of our spotlig...

Objects And Stories From September 11 Tragedies Presented In Smithsonian Memorial Exhibition On View At The Japanese American National Museum July 1 - August 15, 2004

2004年04月16日

In its only California presentation, the acclaimed exhibition September 11: Bearing Witness to History opens at the Japanese American National Museum, a Smithsonian affiliate, on July 1, 2004. Originally organized by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, the traveling exhibition evokes the memories and experiences of September 11 through images, 45 carefully selected objects, and poignant stories f...

Drawing the Line

Drawing the Line: Japanese American Art, Design & Activism in Post-War Los Angeles was a survey of the dynamic and diverse Japanese American contributions to the visual landscape of L.A. in the period following World War II. Works of art and historic documents—together with texts, images, and video clips from extensive oral histories—illustrated the delicate line that exists between form and function. Mike Ka...